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The documents were previously released online by the collective known as Anonymous but they were only available via bittorrent.The complete collection of Scientology's Operating Thetan levels normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to access by working your way through the Scientology system. The Church of Scientology denies the information exists, but the authenticity of these documents can be verified by any former OT level members of the Church of Scientology such as Jesse Prince (former No.2 of the 'Church'), Michael Pattinson (OT VIII), Tory Christman (OT VII) and 10 year Scientology member turned renowned critic, Arnie Lerma, who's home was raided at the bequest of the church of Scientology in 1995, to recover copies of the OT texts which had been legally obtained via the court release of them during the Fishman case.

Though these texts have appeared online before, they have always been rapidly hit with copyright claims and lawsuits by the church of Scientology, despite at the same time denial of the existence, or authenticity of the documents.

Older versions of these texts, versions of OT levels I to VII were once made available to the public for under 100 dollars as exhibits attached to a declaration by Steven Fishman on 9 April 1993 as part of Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz. The text of this declaration and its exhibits were collectively known as the Fishman Affidavit. These exhibits were eventually sealed by a judge after petitioning by the Church of Scientology, as their contents were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per reader to them.

This is the third major Scientology leak on Wikileaks spawned by the Anonymous campaign against what it calls "the corrupt business known as the 'Church of Scientology'". Previously there was :

I haven't read or downloaded these, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. I've heard about Scientology putting a passing Starbucks employee on a restraining order [tampabay.com] they claim is against 'terrorists' when she simply walked by the peaceful Anonymous protest. I hate to think what they'd do to someone who's actually, gasp, reported on a website containing something they'd really have cause to complain about.

I do however have more faith in the words of Scientology alumni and objective critics than the propa

A well known Scientology critic has made a note on the source of the documents:

The PDF file dates from 1999. It was compiled in the Freezone. It is not a manual, but a collection of the original OT and L levels and associated checksheets, notes etc.

These papers do NOT exist as a single item in the CoS, but as a series of levels taken (and paid for!) over a number of years. So far as I know they have all been available since the final bits were stolen in 1983.